Examples

As if it weren't enough to suggest insistent hip-hop rhythms with heavily pedaled bass ostinati, or to give Schumann a whirl ( "Auf Einer Burg"), Mr. Moran also throws into the mix a dollop of stride, the prewar two-handed school of jazz piano that's all about instrumental virtuosity and high spirits.

It's a big, stylised, ensemble piece which turns almost exclusively on a series of compulsive ostinati and like the demon roulette wheel only stops spinning long enough to register the human folly which drives it.